ALEX HALL interviews PAUL HOLDEN, whose bombshell book uses leaked documents to expose how the Starmer faction used systematic dishonesty to seize power and reopen the door to the corrupting ecosystem of corporate lobbying and sleaze
Should we still use the terms ‘bourgeois’ and ‘proletariat’?
Some of Marx’s terms are unfamiliar to people today, so we should be careful how we use them
“WHY use the terms ‘bourgeois’ and ‘proletariat’? Most people don’t know what they mean.”
You’re probably right. And in answer to your question; we probably shouldn’t, except in a historical context.
In a footnote to the 1883 edition of The Communist Manifesto, Engels wrote: “By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour.
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